
Parenting With a Disability
NAMC is happy to welcome a guest writer for this edition of our blog. Ashley Taylor is a freelance writer, photographer, and advocate for ...
Montessori Freedom: Setting Limits with Positive Statements (Part 2)
In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of having consistent, predictable rules and limits in order for children to feel safe an...
Montessori: Freedom Is Not the Same as Permissiveness (Part 1)
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any power of control is to betray the idea of freedom. —Maria Montessori The...
Cosmic Education: Helping Montessori Parents Raise Environmentally Aware Children
“… the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This ...
Montessori Peace Education: Helping Children Cope with Natural Disasters
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people wh...
Montessori Peace Education: Singing Peace Around the World on World Peace Day
Preventing conflicts is the work of politics: establishing peace is the work of education. —Maria Montessori Education and Peace, p. 24....
Quieting a Class the Montessori Way
We have all been there. All of a sudden, the noise level in the classroom gets so loud, you wonder how anyone can possibly concentrate. N...
Montessori Early Childhood Education: The Foundation of the Method
Education, therefore, of little ones is important, especially from three to six years of age, because this is the embryonic period for the ...
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